Not intending to eavesdrop and yet unable to miss what they were saying

He overheard snippets of their conversation

A conversation which he thought was impossible to ignore

Hence his sharing and

now, my sharing too. . .

“My Mom just doesn’t know how to pause. She must always be on-the-go. She runs and rushes around, one thing after another, so that she is not aware of what is really going on around her, because she has to be the centre of everything”.

“Imagine, we were taken to holidays in Paris, but she didn’t even care, that we, her children, had never been to the Eiffel Tower before, because it was our first trip to Paris. But the whole itinerary was built to satisfy her desires, and we ended up queuing at Chanel, Louis Vuitton stores . . . it was damn boring!”

“My Dad was so cruel. Imagine . . . I was barely 10 when he sent me over to study in Taiwan. He didn’t care about how difficult the language was and that I was very scared and actually didn’t want to go . . . And now, he is asking me to come back home to help him with his business. I don’t really like it. I know I will be dumped with a lot of work, but I guess I have no choice . . . I don’t think Dad cares for us – his children – he just sees us as investment!”